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Bower vs Browserify-CDN: What are the differences?
Developers describe Bower as "A package manager for the web". Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat. On the other hand, Browserify-CDN is detailed as "Browserify as a service". Browsers don't have the require method defined, but Node.js does. With Browserify you can write code that uses require in the same way that you would use it in Node.
Bower and Browserify-CDN can be categorized as "Front End Package Manager" tools.
Bower and Browserify-CDN are both open source tools. Bower with 15.2K GitHub stars and 1.97K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Browserify-CDN with 557 GitHub stars and 74 GitHub forks.
Pros of Bower
- Package management483
- Open source214
- Simple142
- Great for for project dependencies injection53
- Web components with Meteor27
- Portable dependencies Management8
Pros of Browserify-CDN
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Cons of Bower
- Deprecated2
- Front end only1